Please donate to help keep the MakerWorld doors open
Please donate to help keep the MakerWorld doors open
On Saturday 14th August help us to create a Wild Thing! A Parade in a Day in the Piazza Shopping Centre as part of the Temporary Contemporary day of creativity. Drop in to make puppets and costumes and book on one of our drum workshops or dance workshops and take part in the Wild Things […]
Wild Things! A Parade in a Day! – Saturday 14th August, 10am-4pm Read More →
Interested in our groups and want to know more about us and what we will be doing in the coming term? Read on! What we have been doing: Despite a year of lockdown we have been incredibly busy in 2020-2021. We have developed and delivered 8300 art packs to children across Kirklees as part of
We are so delighted to be collaborating with Kirklees Museums and Kirklees Culture Declares on this project for Our Biennale. The project started with our children and young people drawing one of a shortlist of five birds at risk in our area: cuckoo, twite, ring ouzel, curlew and yellow hammer. Writer Rob Cowen chose the cuckoo
Kirklees Cuckoo- a WithNature2020 project Read More →
We are delighted to have partnered with Huddersfield Literature Festival for their Lockdown Lantern Installation. 10 lantern making packs have gone out to some of our young artists who have been busy making lanterns at home to be hung in the courtyard at Lawrence Batley Theatre from March 23rd as part of this years festival.
Lantern making for Huddersfield Literature Festival Read More →
We have started to receive photos from children throughout Kirklees who have been making, drawing and getting creative with our Healthy Holiday packs delivered by Kirklees Youth Alliance and our Make a BUG activity packs funded by Kirklees Council. We love seeing what you do with the packs so keep sending us photos and we
Your artwork shared here! Read More →
We are loving our latest ‘how to’ film presented by one of our regular young artists at The Children’s Art School. She’s only 9 but she absolutely smashed it! This film has been made to support children who have received one of our 300 Make a BUG activity packs. These packs, funded by Kirklees Council,
Watch! 9 yr old artist presents our latest ‘How To’ film Read More →
In October 2020 we reopened our Maker World space in Huddersfield’s Piazza shopping centre and launched Our Biennale! This first event was a weekend of drop-in workshops as part of The Big Draw – the world’s largest drawing festival. Under the theme ‘The Big Green Draw: A Climate of Change’, we invited families into a story-telling experience
The Big Draw at Maker World Read More →
We are just loving being back with our preschoolers! Fun creativity for 2-4yr olds on Fridays at Holmfirth Tech. 10-11am and 1.30-2.30pm.
Little Art Club is back! Read More →
Join us this half term for some creative fun- all FREE! First up- we have The Big Draw at Maker World in Huddersfield, part of the Our Biennale Festival on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October: We also have 2 drop in days at Maker World on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th October: We are
HALF TERM creativity! Read More →
We have loved being part of this project with Home Valley Sharing Memories group! The project celebrates the origins of the Holmfirth Technical Instititute, which became Holmfirth Adult Education centre and is now known as the Tech . In 1984 a newspaper article in the Huddersfield Chronicle https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Huddersfield_Chronicle_(12/May/1894)_-_A_New_Technical_Institute_for_Holmfirth reported the opening of the building and
Museum of Curiosities Read More →